A Bahraini opposition leader says the ruling Al Khalifah regime has been given the carte blanche by the US for its heavy-handed crackdown in the country.

A new report reveals that Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Bahrain are suffering from the long-term effects of torture during their arrest.

An informed source says officials at Bahrain’s Jau Prison have brutally beaten and tortured at least 14 inmates inside the detention center.

A US couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy faces an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking which carries the death penalty if they are convicted.

A leader of the Palestinian Fatah resistance movement says Israeli officials are exposing Palestinian children to brutal forms of torture in detention centers, and are treating them as serious criminals.

A Yemeni human rights group slams Saudi Arabia over its inhumane treatment of migrants and demands trial of all those responsible.

The oldest inmate at the infamous Guantanamo prison is released without trial after nearly two decades.

Some 300 human rights groups and civil organizations have denounced the continued detention of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and called for their immediate release.

An international human rights organization warns against gross human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and the brutal torture of dissidents in the kingdom.

Bahraini courts have convicted and sentenced four anti-regime activists to death following unfair trials, a London-based NGO says.